x2 purchase advice please

[tommytucker]

When purchasing VS9 and VS10+, I always just ordered the box. Has anyone had any experience or opinion on using the 2 year download program by Corel for these products or x2? How can you make sure you are getting the whole program and content on x2 considering the size of the content? I have had to do clean reinstalls over the past two years due to smartsound or other issues...I would expect that having the CDs for reinstall would also be a good idea for x2.

[TimA-C]

Hmm! Well, I suppose you could always burn the downloaded files onto a disk . . .

[joosuna]

Tommy
I normally purchase the box version because the cd has a "repair option" that I use, when I mess up my computer or corrupt the video studio files (which i have a bad habit of doing )
regards
Joe

[TimA-C]

Surely that's just a case of re-installing the software and choosing the 'repair' option, isn't it?

[Ron P.]

When purchasing VS9 and VS10+, I always just ordered the box. Has anyone had any experience or opinion on using the 2 year download program by Corel for these products or x2? How can you make sure you are getting the whole program and content on x2 considering the size of the content? I have had to do clean reinstalls over the past two years due to smartsound or other issues...I would expect that having the CDs for reinstall would also be a good idea for x2.

Yes in fact I have had experience with the 2 year download insurance with VS9. This was with Ulead, and of course before Corel purchased them. The download insurance did help out. I had burned the download files to disc, however the discs had been damaged. So if I had not purchased the insurance, I would have been out of luck with that version.

The best download insurance is free though. That insurance is called redundant back-ups. I generally will have no less than 3 backups of each program that I purchase. On some older programs I may have it burned on about 5 different discs...

[sjj1805]

No need for 2 year download insurance if you follow my advice here:
Lost Serial Numbers and Software.

[tommytucker]

so you log those serials and back up your software. I guess I could back up and archive the downloaded upgrade program from VS10+ to VS12 if I purchase it then. I was concerned about comments on the size of the program and how to determine if I was getting all of the 'content' and files.

[kevsterman]

Hi there,

I currently have the trial version of Video Studio Pro x3 and I'm going to buy the full version. The download insurance seems to me a bit unnecessary if we can back up the files onto a disk, though of course these companies are good at charging us for things we don't really need. Now I'm not particularly computer savvy, although I should be considering how much time I spend on it, so my question is, when I purchase the downloaded version, presumably it all arrives within one folder? Do I just burn that folder onto a disk? And if at some point I change computers or have to reformat due to some virus or hardrive failure, do I just pop the disk in and reinstall the programme? Its not that I'm stingy, well I am, but I'm loathed to give these big companies more money than I have to for things we don't actually need.

[sjj1805]

That's all there is to it. Whatever files you are provided with to download now, be it a single file or multiple files, you simply preserve them onto a CD/DVD and use them again at some future date if/when required.
There is no need for "download insurance."

[kevsterman]

Thanks Steve, I won't bother with the insurance then. Thanks for your advice. I'll go ahead and purchase it. Kev